Widegates

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:16 am

Since chocoholic on another thread quoted Tennyson's Crossing the Bar it seemed a good excuse to post my second Salcombe poem - the first is North Sands, which I've already posted.

The place is called Widegates because the estuary opens out where the branch that leads to Frogmore joins the main estuary, and the widening out means there are mudflats.

Widegates

Curlew and Snipe peel off into air

From step-probe-step on the mudflat:

The first shimmer of change, as if

The whole estuary were a grazing beast

Twitching at some quiver in the grass,

Uneasy, not yet a stampede.

Changing tides. After ebb and pause

At slack, the sea's spreading hands

Lift seaweed and sweep feeding birds

Inland. Clean bright deep sea smells

Scour swamp stink of oozing sludge

At ocean's edge and a silver skin

Glitters with every touch of wind

Above this rich dark meat of mud.

By Clodhopper

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:06 pm

Oh, I really like this poem "Wildgates" Clod....

Here's my Atlantic Ocean......

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:06 pm

Sorry, that was way too big. I'll delete it if anyone wants me to:-6

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:23 pm

Kathy: The Atlantic, hey?

Hmm. Thought it looked familiar. Now if it had been the Pacific I wouldn't have recognised it at all!

Good photo, though. Liked it.

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:29 pm

I'm glad even my waste products inspire you!:p:D

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:33 pm

Clodhopper;822206 wrote: Kathy: The Atlantic, hey?

Hmm. Thought it looked familiar. Now if it had been the Pacific I wouldn't have recognised it at all!

Good photo, though. Liked it.

:wah::wah: No, you would recognize the Pacific....all the sharks dress up in funky clothes and drink frog's water:-6 Our sharks are just your everyday, beach bums:p

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:39 pm

a waste of time no it relaxed ny wetrdo mind for a while which is quite rare

Probably why most of us write! The ones you are seeing are the ones i think are quite good. I've written plenty of trash, but it usually made me feel better, so who cares?

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:44 pm

Kathy Ellen;822222 wrote: : No, you would recognize the Pacific....all the sharks dress up in funky clothes and drink frog's water:-6 Our sharks are just your everyday, beach bums:p

The picture that's just put in my mind of shark fishing in California is...interesting, to say the least! :wah::wah:

I can just see Jimbo, on holiday, sitting in the back of a pickup truck driving along the beach front, with rod and line baited with a can of Duff beer...

"You should have seen the one that got away!" :wah::wah:

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:46 pm

mmmm. Beer. Now there's a thought!

Catch you later! As Jimbo said to the beach bum.